Chronicles offers intense swing, infectious funk and driving clave, lush ensemble sonorities, sensitive solo showcases and fresh, reimagined classics! A retrospective of John Wasson's big band writing spanning his days at the Univ of N. Texas in the '80s to the present. The Strata Big Band began first as a 12-piece ensemble before growing to the full 18-person group you will witness here.This band has created/expanded/bolstered the sound previously heard only in my imagination, and I could not be more proud, or more grateful. -John Wasson